Book 5, Ep. 8 | Mad Studies with Aisha Wilks
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How to Justify a Reading of a Character as Mad
In your work do you ever find that you have to justify an analysis of something when it has previously not been treated as such? So far I've looked at texts that are open to a mad reading. For instance, Tony Morrison's The Bluest Eye or Cecique Downnor Remga's Nervous Conditions both include characters who are quite explicitly framed in terms of their madness. But I'm also thinking a lot about the ways that madness exceeds our capacity to define it just because of what it means to be mad and the ways that language might not actually allow us to fully account for experiences of madness.
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